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A term of the Irish Brehon law, denoting a pecuniary mulct or recompensewhich a murderer was judicially condemned to pay to the family or relatives of hisvictim. It corresponded to the Saxon

That which comes by chance or accident. Cowell.

A period of time fixed by law or by a court within which certain acts are tobe performed, e. g., the production of papers, payment of debts, etc.

A bridge or stank of stone or timber. Cowell.

An ensign for horsemen in war.

And another. The abbreviation et al. (sometimes in the plural written etals.) is affixed to the name of the person first mentioned, where there are severalplaintiffs, grantors, persons addressed, etc.

The code of honor agreed on by mutual understanding and tacitly accepted bymembers of the legal profession, especially by the bar. Wharton.Eum qui nocentem infamat, non est ceqnum et bonnm ob earn

1. A Latin preposition meaning from, out of, by, on, on account of, or according to.2. A prefix, denoting removal or cessation. Prefixed to the name of an office, relation,status, etc., it

Out of comity or courtesy.

By a fiction of law.Ex frequentl delicto augetur poena2 Inst 479. Punishmeut Increases with increasing crime.

Of necessity. 3 Rep. Ch. 123.

From or in consequence of time; by lapse of time. Bract fols. 51, 52.Ex diuturno tempore, from length of time. Id. fol. 516. Without preparation or premeditation.

An exchange; a place where merchants meet to transact their business;also au equivalent in recompense; a recompense in lieu of dower ad ostium ccclesix.

A sentence of censure pronounced by one of the spiritualcourts for offenses falling under ecclesiastical coguizance. It is described in the booksas twofold: (1) The lesser excommunication, which is an ecclesiastical censure,excluding

A writ directed to the judge of an inferior court to doexecution upon a judgment therein, or to return some reasonable cause wherefore hedelays the execution. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 20.

To make use of. Thus, to exercise a right or power is to do somethingwhich it enables the holder to do. U. S. v. Souders, 27 Fed. Cas. 1267; Cleaver v.Comm., 34

Disinterment; the removal from the earth of anything previous lyburied therein, particularly a human corpse.

. A writ that lay for the crown’s ward, to be free from all suitto the county court, hundred court, leet, etc., during wardship. Fitzh. Nat Brev. 158.

The name of a Saxon magistrate; alderman; analogous to carl among the Danes, and senatoramong the Romans. See ALDERMAN.

In the customs laws of the United States, the term “countries east of theCape of Good Hope” means countries with which, formerly, the United States ordinarilycarried on commercial intercourse by passing around